And not paid expert analysts, either. "Regular" people whom you might find in your own drafts come August.

Ten Bleacher Report Featured Columnists (FCs) recently got together to do a real 10-team mock fantasy football draft. The goal was to give you, the reader, some insight on what a real draft might look like.

After all, everyone has a different strategy and different values assigned to each player, and you've been reading about a lot of different strategies and values right here on Bleacher Report.

Sometimes there's so much advice, it makes your head spin.

The beauty of this mock draft is that it allows you to see how everyone's strategy worked out.

The 10 Participating B/R FCs and Their Draft Order

1. Alexander Onushco

2. Ryan Lester

3. Tim Keeney

4. Ralph Longo

5. Gary Davenport

6. James Reagan

7. Rob Tong (that's me)

8. Daniel Stack

9. Matt Madsen

10. Marco Patitucci

These FCs may also write their own analysis of this draft, so be on the lookout for their perspectives.

Mock league settings

This is a one-point PPR league with all touchdowns worth six points. All other point scoring is generally the same as Yahoo's.

Starting positions are:

1 QB2 RBs3 WRs1 TE1 K1 DEF6 bench players

All starters must be drafted by the end of the draft.

Let's jump into the first round and see how things shook out. For each round, I'll give you the results, then my thought process, followed by my opinion of what the good and bad values were.

Despite the debate over whether a quarterback should be taken early in the first round, the first four picks taken in this draft were running backs.

By the time my turn came, I was debating whether or not to take a QB (either Aaron Rodgers or Tom Brady).

In my mind, Mathews was the last first-round back worth taking. I have questions around Matt Forte, Trent Richardson, Marshawn Lynch, Adrian Peterson, Darren McFadden and Jamaal Charles that keep them from being worthy of a first-round pick.

Furthermore, all the top four quarterbacks (Rodgers, Brady, Drew Brees, Cam Newton) are still on the board. And since I'm in the bottom half of the draft, I thought it might be possible to take Mathews in the first and still come away with a top quarterback when we snake back into the top-half of the second round.

And recall that last year, teams that won a fantasy title didn't necessarily have a top-three QB. If you identified a major quarterback sleeper like Matthew Stafford, and thus used your early picks on proven players like Arian Foster, you could still have a stacked team.

I do have a couple quarterback sleepers in mind just in case I don't end up with any of the top four QBs, so taking Mathews seemed to give me the most flexibility.

Of course, Mathews is talented, young and no longer has touchdown-vulture Mike Tolbert around, so Mathews has a ton of upside to improve upon his 13.3 FPPG average from last year.

Solid Values

Rodgers, Gronkowski and Brady are all excellent (and safe) picks at the tail end of the first round.

With Rodgers, Brady and Brees now all gone, my choice came down to Jimmy Graham or Cam Newton. And I know that whoever I don't take now will not be around for my third-round pick.

So I have to get this choice right.

I ruled out wide receivers from the outset because the receiving group is deep with not a lot of differentiation—the difference between the fourth-ranked fantasy wideout last year and the 22nd-ranked fantasy receiver is just 2.9 FPPG.

So I knew I could wait on the wide receiver position until at least the third round.

But how to choose between Graham and Newton?

The difference between Newton and the 10th-best fantasy quarterback (i.e., the worst QB1) from last year is 6.4 FPPG. The difference between Graham and the 10th-best fantasy tight end (i.e., the worst TE1) from last year is 5.1 FPPG. So looking simply just at this stat, it appears the better value is Newton.

However, quarterback values have been increasing, whereas tight end values have been fairly stagnant.

In 2010, the average QB1 FPPG average was 20.7; in 2011, it was 24.4.

In 2010, the average TE1 FPPG average was 7.4; in 2011, it was 8.5.

This means that in an increasingly pass-first NFL, quarterbacks are a rising group, outproducing tight ends.

So when you find a stud tight end, you should take him because you can probably find a few rising quarterbacks who can still capably fill your roster spot if you miss out on a guy like Newton.

I'm not sold on Marshawn Lynch. I still think it's too early to take a wide receiver. And taking Adrian Peterson in the second round as he still recovers from both an ACL and MCL tear is a bit too risky for my tastes.

A lot of players I was targeting were taken now, including Stafford—the last quarterback worth taking in the first six rounds. So it's time to move on.

With McFadden, Charles, Richardson and Murray gone, I wasn't enamored with the running backs available.

That left receiver. There were several to choose from, but only a handful that were both worth a third-round pick and true No. 1 receivers for their NFL teams: Brandon Marshall, Hakeem Nicks, Roddy White and Kenny Britt.

Britt's ADP is amazingly in the seventh round, so I figured I could wait until about the sixth round (or even the fifth round if I was desperate).